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PYGMIES AND FOREST NEGROES 



agricultural Mbuba and Momfu Negroes, a forest race of not particularly low- 

 type which inhabits the crest of the Congo-Nile water-parting, from the 

 upper streams of the Kibale (Welle) to the Semliki Valley. I, in a measure, 



2yO. A PYGMY CHILD FROM MBOGA 



repeated the same discovery and disappointment. I set myself to work to 

 write down the language spoken by the Pygmies of the Semliki Porest 

 {knowing nothing then of Dr. Stuhlmann's researches), and compiled the 

 long vocabulary which appears in Chapter XX. "Here," I thought, ' - is the 



